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Friends & Family Capital
Friends & Family Capital is a Menlo Park, California venture capital firm founded by former Palantir CFO Colin Anderson and John Fogelsong, backing private technology companies.
Friends from College
Friends from College is a Netflix comedy series (2017-2019) created by Nicholas Stoller and Francesca Delbanco about six Harvard friends in their forties, starring Keegan-Michael Key and Cobie Smulders; canceled after 2 seasons, 16 episodes.
Friends in Low Places
"Friends in Low Places" (also Friends In Low Places) is a 1989 country song by Earl Bud Lee and Dewayne Blackwell, recorded by Garth Brooks as the August 6, 1990 lead single from No Fences; four weeks at No. 1 on Hot Country Songs, ACM and CMA Single of the Year, and the name of his Nashville honky-tonk.
Friends of Amateur Rocketry
Friends of Amateur Rocketry (FAR) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit, formed in 2003, operating a launch and static-test site in the Mojave Desert, California, for amateur rockets of all sizes.
Friends Stand United
Friends Stand United (FSU), also known as Fuck Shit Up, is a Boston hardcore punk crew founded by Elgin James with straight edge roots, initially anti-racist, later an FBI-classified street gang.
Friends with Benefits (film)
Friends with Benefits is a 2011 American romantic comedy directed by Will Gluck, starring Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis as friends trying a no-strings arrangement; released July 22, 2011 by Screen Gems, grossing about $149.5 million.
Friends with Kids
Friends with Kids is a 2011 American comedy-drama, Jennifer Westfeldt's directorial debut, also called FWK, about platonic friends Julie and Jason who co-parent while dating others; premiered at TIFF 2011, released March 9, 2012, Metascore 55.
Friends with Money
Friends with Money is a 2006 American comedy-drama written and directed by Nicole Holofcener, starring Jennifer Aniston, Joan Cusack, Catherine Keener, and Frances McDormand as friends divided by income; 88 minutes, Sony Pictures Classics, $13.4M US gross.
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing is a memoir by actor Matthew Perry. It details his career on the sitcom Friends and his lifelong battle with addiction.
Friends, Romans, Countrymen (Yellowjackets)
Friends, Romans, Countrymen is the season 2 premiere of Yellowjackets, also called the Yellowjackets S2E1 premiere. Written by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, it aired March 24, 2023 on streaming and March 26 on Showtime, ending with Shauna eating Jackie's ear.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears
Famous opening line of Mark Antony's funeral oration in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1599), Act 3 Scene 2; a metonymic request for attention that echoes Brutus's speech and became an English idiom meaning "everyone, listen to me."
Friends: The Reunion
Friends: The Reunion (2021), an unscripted HBO Max special directed by Ben Winston, reunited Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer on Stage 24 on May 27, 2021, with celebrity guests and no scripted scenes.
Friendship
Friendship: a voluntary, reciprocal, informal close relationship, also called philia in Aristotle's three-tier theory. Distinguished from family and romance by its six functions (companionship, support, security, alliance, self-validation, intimacy) and strong links to wellbeing.
Friendship (2024 film)
Friendship is a 2024 American cringe comedy, Andrew DeYoung's directorial debut, starring Tim Robinson as suburban dad Craig Waterman and Paul Rudd as neighbor Austin Carmichael. Premiered at TIFF 2024, released by A24 on May 9, 2025; Metacritic 72, Rotten Tomatoes 88%.
Friendship bracelet
Friendship bracelet: handmade knotted or beaded token of friendship, a macramé-style craft. Made from cotton embroidery floss, rooted in Central American weaving, revived by Taylor Swift's Eras Tour.
Friendship Bridge
The Friendship Bridge, also called the Danube Bridge, is a combined road and railway bridge across the Danube between Ruse, Bulgaria, and Giurgiu, Romania, opened in 1954.
Friendship Day
Friendship Day, or International Day of Friendship, is a UN observance on 30 July proclaimed in 2011 (A/RES/65/275), originating with the 1958 World Friendship Crusade in Paraguay; other countries celebrate on 20 July, the first Sunday of August, or 14 February.
Friendship graph
A friendship graph, also called a windmill graph, is a graph in which every two vertices have exactly one common neighbor, always triangles sharing one center.
Friendship Is Witchcraft
Friendship Is Witchcraft (FiW) is a fan-made abridged parody series of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic by Jenny Nicholson and Griffin Lewis as Sherclop Pones, on YouTube 2011–2016, nine episodes plus specials, original songs, and the robot Sweetie Bot.
Friendship Medal (友谊勋章) (China)
Friendship Medal (友谊勋章), China's highest state honor for foreigners, created under the 2015 national medals law; first awarded June 8, 2018 to Vladimir Putin; later recipients include Nguyen Phu Trong, Rahmon, Rousseff, and Vucic.
Friendship paradox
The friendship paradox is the statement that, on average, an individual's friends have more friends than the individual, first formalized by sociologist Scott L. Feld in 1991.
Friendslop
Friendslop is internet slang for cheap, chaotic co-op indie games like Lethal Company, R.E.P.O., and PEAK, coined on X in March 2025; the fun comes from friends, proximity voice chat, and physics-driven chaos rather than deep mechanics.
Friendster
Friendster, founded in 2002 by Canadian engineer Jonathan Abrams, was a pioneering social networking service that introduced tens of millions of users to online profiles before MySpace and Facebook overtook it.
Frieren (TV series)
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (葬送のフリーレン) is a Madhouse TV anime adapted from Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe's manga. Season 1 (28 episodes, 2023–24, dir. Keiichiro Saitō) and season 2 (January 2026, dir. Tomoya Kitagawa) aired on Nippon TV; season 3 is set for October 2027.
Frieren (フリーレン) (character)
Frieren (フリーレン) is the elf mage protagonist of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End by Yamada and Abe; a 1,000-year-old former hero-party member who journeys to understand humans after Himmel's death, known as 'Frieren the Slayer' for mana concealment.
Frieren (葬送のフリーレン)
Frieren (葬送のフリーレン, Beyond Journey's End) is a Shogakukan Weekly Shonen Sunday fantasy manga by Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe, serialized since April 2020 about an elven mage traveling after her hero party's era; Manga Taisho 2021 winner with 35 million copies and a hit Madhouse anime.
Fries rearrangement
The Fries rearrangement is an organic reaction in which a phenolic ester is converted under acidic conditions into hydroxyaryl ketones, first reported by Karl Fries in 1908.
Friesenheim
Friesenheim, a municipality in the Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, site of a Roman road station (mansio) at Bannstude on the Augst–Mainz road, discovered from a train in 1970, excavated 1973–1977, with a Diana Abnoba temple.
Friesian horse
Friesian horse (Friese paard), the only horse breed native to the Netherlands, from Friesland; black coat, feathered legs; KFPS studbook since 1879; used for dressage and driving; known genetic conditions include hydrocephalus and dwarfism.
Friesland
Friesland (officially Fryslân since 1997) is a northern province of the Netherlands on the North Sea coast, known for its Frisian language and high life satisfaction.